August 2012 – Magnatecha

Execute a Command at a Specific Time

There are two good ways to make your computer execute a command at a specific time of the day: cron and the “at” command. We’re going to take a look at the quick way to do this via the terminal with “at”. This example will execute the ls command at 3:09pm according to your system’s […]

Create an Encrypted Zip Archive from the Command Line

Here is how you create an encrypted zip from the terminal: The above command will create an encrypted zip archive of a folder named nameOfYourFolderToZip and save it to archive.zip.